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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these important new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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